In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:

• Assess current performance of an organization through analysis of financial statements.

Scenario

In Project One: Applying Strategic and Operational Thinking, you prepared Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the marketing and sales departments of your product line.

Now, the CEO has provided you with a revised set of KPIs. You need to apply these KPIs toward the analysis of a proposed marketing and sales initiative to increase loyalty card memberships in neighborhoods with predominantly low-income populations, whether the populations are in rural, suburban, or city locations.

The CEO wants this analysis so that she can chart the sustainability and growth of the initiative while assuring it meets standards for Corporate Social Responsibility.

The CEO has provided you with several documents, available in the Supporting Materials section for this project. She wants you to use the provided triple bottom line balanced scorecard to assess the strategic plans compliance with the KPIs and summarize your findings in a memo.

Directions

Complete the following to provide the analysis required by the CEO:

1. Identify the financial records that indicate commitment to TBL.
   1. Outline which financial and other records maintained by marketing and sales provide data showing a commitment to TBL.
2. Using the provided TBL scorecard, evaluate the alignment of the strategic plan with KPIs. Remember, this exercise may have multiple outcomes. Your focus should be to apply your understanding of the scenario and evaluate the plan accordingly.
   1. Which ideas in the strategic plan support the KPI criteria? Cite specific ideas that meet the criteria.
   2. Explain how the ideas meet the criteria.
3. In your memo:
   1. Describe how the TBL data relates to the KPIs.
   2. Identify which additional TBL financial line items are needed to measure the cost for each criterion.
      For example, should there be a line entry for hiring temporary workers?
   3. Refer back to the SWOT analyses from Project One, and explain how functional considerations of individual departments contribute to financial performance.

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit the following:

KPI and Triple Bottom Line Balanced Scorecard

• Complete and submit the . In the scorecard spreadsheet, identify one additional KPI, a related SMART objective, and its measurement criterion. You need to do this for all three elements of TBL: people, planet, and profit. You have been provided with one example for each TBL element.

Analysis Memo

• In a Word document, write a memo outlining your analysis. Ensure that the memo is organized by TBL element with a header for each segment of your analysis. The Word document should use double-spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. This memo should be no more than 6 pages in length, and include references cited in APA format. Consult the for more information on citations.

Government agencies are official organizations created by the government to manage public services, enforce laws, and improve the welfare of citizens. They work in different sectors such as health, education, security, and transportation.

Public health development refers to the improvement of the health and well-being of people in a community through programs, policies, healthcare services, disease prevention, sanitation, and health education.

Therefore, Government agencies and public health development means the role and contribution of government organizations in improving the health conditions of the public through planning, funding, policies, and health programs.

Examples of such agencies in Nigeria include the Federal Ministry of Health, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

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GRADING CRITERIA

JOURNAL

Weeks 1-7 will have a journal assignment where you apply the weeks reading assignment to your professional or everyday life.

WEEK #6 JOURNAL

Every week, there will be a 500-word journal reflecting on what you have learned throughout the week. Use correct grammar, and respond to a few of the bullet points posted below.

• What did you learn this week?
• Connect this week’s topics to your professional career. (I WILL TELL YOU WHAT MY PROFESSIONAL CAREER IS)
• What examples of this week’s topics do you see in your everyday life? (I WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH ASPECTS OF MY EVERYDAY LIFE)
• What topic from this week was most interesting to you?
• Is there a current event that ties to the reading assignments from this week?
• Is there a topic you’d like to learn more about? Why?
• Is there a topic you did not enjoy? Why?

HERE YOU HAVE THE COURSE MATERIAL THAT WAS COVERED DURING THE WEEK:

Reading Assignment

• Read Chapter 3 from Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology (found under Course Resources)

• Course Text – Information Systems: A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology

  You can access this text from going to their website – – or using the PDF attached. Click link to view the file.
• Read Chapter 13 from Information Systems for Business and Beyond (found under Course Resources)

• Course Text – Information Systems for Business and Beyond

  You can access this text from going to their website – – or using the PDF attached.
  Click link to view the file.
• Read
• Read
• Read
• Read

• Reading Assignment

  Please read Chapter 6 of your textbook. (NOTE: I AM ATTACHING A PPT FILE ON THIS CHAPTER 6, FOR YOU TO FULLY REVIEW)

  Video – Chapter 6. Learning objective 1 & 2
  

  Click on to open the resource.

  Video – Chapter 6. Learning objective 3 & 4
  

  Click on to open the resource.

  Chapter 6. Crossword puzzle challenge

  Click on to open the resource.

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS

Each week the student will be required to research and answer provided prompt

Instructions

Research and write a synthesis of your findings on one of the following topics:

* How does offshoring effect the domestic economy as compared to the organization’s performance?

* Why is it important that managers understand the role of technology in strategic decision making and developing a balanced scorecard?

YOUR PAPER SHOULD BE 1000 WORDS MINIMUM, APA FORMATTED, AND INCLUDE A MINIMUM OF 2 RELEVANT SOURCES.

Start Date

05/25/2026 12:00 AM EDT

Due Date

05/31/2026 11:59 PM EDT

Feedback Release Date

06/07/2026 11:59 PM EDT

Max Points

50

Additional Settings

• Student access to similarity reports has been disabled by your instructor.
• Resubmissions are not allowed
• Late submissions are not allowed

GRADING CRITERIA

DISCUSSIONS

Post your primary response by Sunday midnight. Respond to at least two (2) other postings by the same time.

The primary post should be at least 300 characters in length and include at least one (1) cited reference. Your second postings can either answer another student’s question to your own post or be a comment to his or her original post. Secondary posts must be at least 150 characters in length. Late primary responses will not receive full credit and any posts made after the weekend the assignment is due will receive a 0 since it does not allow for student discussion.

Discussion 6

Watch the following video:

What types of data visualization do you encounter in your job or as a student? Can you see concepts of the language of the eye and language of the mind at work in the visualizations? What suggestions would you give the designer to make the user experience more effective or efficient?

Discussion 1

Receivables

One way for organizations to generate revenue is through accounts receivable. Go to Yahoo Finance and select a company. Then, share with the class on one of the companys receivables. Go to at least 2 other colleagues posts and provide the colleagues selected companys accounts receivable turnover.

assignment 1) ACC220 Week 3 Assignment

Problems

For this weeks assignment, address the following problems. Be sure to complete all steps and sections of the problem and show all your work.

1. Prepare journal entries for the following transactions from Barrels Warehouse.

Jul. 1 Sold 2,000 barrels with a sales price of $30 per barrel to customer Lucks Vineyards. Lucks Vineyards paid with cash. The cost for this sale is $18 per barrel.

Jul. 3 Sold 1,200 barrels with a sales price of $32 per barrel to customer Paramount Apparel. Paramount paid using its in-house credit account. Terms of the sale are 3/10, n/30. The cost for this sale is $17 per barrel.

Jul. 5 Sold 1,400 barrels with a sales price of $31 per barrel to customer Melody Sharehouse. Melody paid using her MoneyPlus credit card. The cost for this sale is $18 per barrel. MoneyPlus Credit Card Company charges Barrels Warehouse a 2% usage fee based on the total sale per transaction.

Jul. 8 MoneyPlus Credit Card Company made a cash payment in full to Barrels Warehouse for the transaction from July 5, less any usage fees.

Jul. 13 PA2. Paramount Apparel paid its account in full with a cash payment, less any discounts.

2. Jars Plus recorded $861,430 in credit sales for the year and $488,000 in accounts receivable. The uncollectible percentage is 2.3% for the income statement method, and 3.6% for the balance sheet method.

Record the year-end adjusting entry for 2018 bad debt using the income statement method.

Record the year-end adjusting entry for 2018 bad debt using the balance sheet method.

Assume there was a previous debit balance in Allowance for Doubtful Accounts of $10,220, record the year-end entry for bad debt using the income statement method, and then the entry using the balance sheet method.

Assume there was a previous credit balance in Allowance for Doubtful Accounts of $5,470, record the year-end entry for bad debt using the income statement method, and then the entry using the balance sheet method.a

Assignment 2) ACC220 Week 3

Exercise

Be sure to complete all steps and sections of the problem and show all your work.

1. Fortune Accounting reports $1,455,000 in credit sales for 2022 and $1,678,430 in 2023. It has an $825,000 accounts receivable balance at the end of 2022 and $756,000 at the end of 2023. Fortune uses the balance sheet method to record bad debt estimation at 7.5% during 2022. To manage earnings more favorably, Fortune changes bad debt estimation to the income statement method at 5.5% during 2023.

2. Determine the bad debt estimation for 2022.

3. Determine the bad debt estimation for 2023.

4. Describe a benefit to Fortune in 2023 as a result of its earnings management.

Discussion 2)

Connect with a Sales Manager

Utilize LinkedIn to find two sales managers in your geographic area and invite them to connect with you. If you know someone from work who is a sales manager or your friend, you may use them for an interview too. Try using what you now know about segmentation, targeting, and positioning to consider industries youd like to work in, where they might be located, and how you can make your resume appealing to them.

Write a compelling message that encourages sales managers to connect with you. Share the message in the discussion post for your peers to review.

Once connected on LinkedIn, interview at least one sales professional and ask questions about what they enjoy most and least about their sales careers. You may interview a colleague from work or a friend who is also a sales manager. Share the answers from the interview in the discussion post for your peers to review.

assignment 3) W3 Assignment

Conduct a Survey

Conduct a survey of five college students via email, social media, telephone, or in-person to learn more about the student demographic. Explain that you are collecting data for a classroom assignment only and will not identify them by name. Ask these questions:

1. If you could adopt a rescue animal today, what would it be?

2. What is the best pizza topping?

3. Would you rather sneeze for an hour or have hiccups for an hour?

4. Would you rather get $1 million right now or $10,000 per month for a lifetime?

5. What is your least favorite food?

Summarize and report your results in a chart.

C and D are structurally different questions than A, B, and E. What is different between these questions?

Can your findings be applied to all college students? Why or why not?

Assignment Requirements

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

The paper must be between 1 2 pages in length (not counting the title page) using Microsoft Word.

Attempt APA style.

Use font size 12 and 1 margins.

Include a cover page and reference page.

Reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must be identified in the paper and listed on a reference page.

Reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must come from sources such as scholarly journals found in online newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, etc. are not acceptable.

External Analysis, Porters Five Forces Model of Industry Attractiveness

The purpose of the third AFI paper is for you to provide..

(use the same firm/industry for AFI Paper 3 that you used in your earlier AFI Papers 1 and 2, use the posted example as a guide. Please cite and refer to your sources using a standard reference style)

Because feedback on parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 of your paper is so important I require that you submit your papers in the .DOCX format (e.g., Microsoft Word). While Canvas Turnitin will accept PDF files, it will not allow me to give you comments in the body of your text. In a similar manner if you are using the Pages word processing program on a Macintosh Canvas Turnitin will not be able to immediately process your paper and I will have great difficulty in opening it (you can readily save a Macintosh Pages word processing document as a .DOCX document). If you fail to save and submit in the proper format this will result in:
1) a 20% penalty;
2) a delay in grading; and
3) no feedback other than a simple number score.

External Analysis, The General Environment, PESTEL

The purpose of this second AFI paper is for you to provide …
Your firm/industry of analysis must come from the list in Appendix A of your Syllabus. You will focus on the same firm/industry for all five AFI papers that you will submit during this course. Use the example as a guide for your paper.

Please cite and refer to your sources using a standard reference style.

Because feedback on parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 of your paper is so important I require that you submit your papers in the .DOCX format (e.g., Microsoft Word). While Canvas Turnitin will accept PDF files, it will not allow me to give you comments in the body of your text. In a similar manner if you are using the Pages word processing program on a Macintosh Canvas Turnitin will not be able to immediately process your paper and I will have great difficulty in opening it (you can readily save a Macintosh Pages word processing document as a .DOCX document). If you fail to save and submit in the proper format this will result in:
1) a 20% penalty;
2) a delay in grading; and
3) no feedback other than a simple number score.AFI Paper 2:

AFT PAPER 2

External Analysis, The General Environment, PESTEL

[Your firm/industry of analysis must come from the list in Appendix A of your Syllabus,

You will focus on the same firm/industry for all five papers. Use the example as a guide for your

paper.

Please cite and refer to your sources using a standard reference style]

What is the name of the firm that you are examining and what industry would you place it in?

[insert your answer here]

Describe the industry that this organization is in

1. Who are some of the existing firms or players in this

industry? [insert your answer here]

2. What technologies are being used in this

industry? [insert your answer here]

3. Who are the customers for this industrys

goods/services? [insert your answer here]

4. What business models (chapter 5) exist in this industry [show me the money/revenue]?

[insert your answer here]

Do a PESTEL analysis on this industry (not on your firm, do it on the industry)

1. Political How does/might the political environment effect your firms

industry? [enter your answer here]

2. Economic How does/might the economic environment effect your firms

industry? [enter your answer here]

3. Social How does/might the social environment effect your firms industry?

[enter your answer here]

4. Technological How does/might the technological environment effect your firms

industry?

[enter your answer here]

5. Environmental How does/might the environmental concerns effect your firms

industry?

[enter your answer here]

6. Legal How does/might the legal environment effect your firms

industry? [enter your answer here]

If you were a manager in this industry, what two or three factors in the general environment

would most concern you and why?

[insert your answer here

I. Financial Services & FinTech

Regulatory capital, switching costs, platform networks, fintech disruption

Banks

• Bank of America
• JPMorgan Chase
• Wells Fargo

Investment & Asset Management

• Goldman Sachs
• Charles Schwab

Payments & FinTech

• Visa
• PayPal

II. Technology & Platform Ecosystems

Network effects, ecosystem lock-in, data advantage, antitrust exposure

• Microsoft
• Apple
• Alphabet (Google)
• Amazon
• NVIDIA
• Salesforce
• Uber
• DoorDash
• Airbnb

III. Consumer Brands & Retail

Brand equity, differentiation, supply chain management, discretionary demand

Apparel & Lifestyle

• Patagonia (private)
• Levi Strauss & Co.
• Lululemon Athletica

Food & Beverage

• Dominos
• Dunkin
• Pizza Hut
• Coca-Cola
• PepsiCo
• Chipotle
• Mondelez
• Tyson Foods

General Retail

• Costco
• Kroger
• Albertsons
• Target
• Home Depot

IV. Hospitality, Travel & Experience Economy

Asset-light models, franchising, cyclical exposure, brand portfolios

• Marriott International
• Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
• Hilton Worldwide
• Airbnb
• Disney
• Live Nation
• WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment)

V. Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals

Patient protection, reimbursement risk, regulatory intensity

• HCA Healthcare
• Merck
• Walgreens Boots Alliance
• Pfizer
• Johnson & Johnson
• UnitedHealth Group
• AbbVie
• Moderna

VI. Industrial & Capital-Intensive Manufacturing

Scale economies, cyclical demand, supply chain complexity

• Caterpillar
• John Deere
• Nucor
• Boeing
• 3M

VII. Energy & Utilities

Commodity exposure, ESG pressure, capital allocation intensity

• ExxonMobil
• NextEra Energy

VIII. Automotive & Transportation

Vertical integration, electrification transition, global supply chain

• Tesla
• Harley-Davidson

IX. Logistics & Infrastructure

Network density, fixed-cost leverage, fuel sensitivity

• FedEx
• UPS
• Union Pacific

X. Sports & Specialty Products

Brand community, niche positioning, discretionary demand

• Callaway Golf Company

Strategic Coverage Benefits

With this expanded and categorized list, we aim to have students to have exposure to:

• Highly regulated vs lightly regulated industries
• Commodity vs differentiated markets
• Platform vs pipeline business models
• Asset-heavy vs asset-light models
• Network effects vs scale economies
• Patent-driven vs brand-driven advantage
• Duopolies (Boeing/Airbus, railroads)
• Oligopolies (banking, airlines, defense)

Fragmented industries (restaurants, retail)

1)OPTION A –

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Consult the Additional Resource List at the Bottom For Ideas – Explore the defining marketing portion of our reading and look at the AMA and Philip Kotler’s key points about how marketing is more than advertising and promoting.

• In what ways is the marketing process more than advertising and promotion?
• Share at least two examples of functions contained in marketing that are not advertising or promotion.
• How does the marketing process (not just advertising) improve your family?
• How does the marketing process (not just advertising) improve your community?
• How does marketing the marketing process (not just advertising) improve your work, or a previous job, meet its goals?

OR

OPTION B –

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Consult the Additional Resource List at the Bottom For Ideas – Explore the defining marketing portion of our reading and look at the AMA and Philip Kotler’s key points about how marketing is more than advertising and promoting.

• In what ways is the marketing process more than advertising and promotion?
• Share at least two examples of functions contained in the marketing process that are not advertising or promotion.
• How is the marketing process (not just advertising) inclusive of both for-profit and non-profit industries?
• What role does marketing have in the development of services and programs in the nonprofit industry within your community? – think Boys and Girls Clubs, Churches, Parks and Recreation programs, Food Pantry/Foodbanks, Homeless missions

then make2 separate post replying to a discussion on same topic.